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Parking Reforms Under Consideration in St. Paul Two options for significant parking reforms are under consideration in St. Paul. The City Council could decide to eliminate parking requirements entirely as soon as this summer. May 13, 2021, 7am PDT | James Brasuell | Frederick Melo reports on the ongoing efforts to relax parking requirements in the Twin Cities—where both cities have already relaxed parking requirements along transit corridors. Efforts to reduce parking requirements in Min...

Analyzed and complied with NYC Building & Zoning Codes and ADA Compliance on residential & commercial projects Produced architectural documents for permit submittal as well as construction Filed Alteration 1,2,&3, Place of Assembly applications for NYC Department of Buildings, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Fire Department City of New York, and NYC Department of Transportation Provided BPD site survey, drawing documents, and applications for Department of Environmental Protection commercial...

Ohio Economists: Relax Zoning to Lower Housing Costs A panel of Ohio economists make the case for more multi-family housing and businesses in single-family neighborhoods. April 22, 2021, 6am PDT | James Brasuell | "Less-strict residential zoning standards […] would make homes cheaper in the future," according to an article by Marty Schladen. Schladen is sharing the results of a survey of the Ohio Experts Panel by Scioto Analysis. Of the 26 economists surveyed, 22 agreed that removing exc...

Does Zoning Create a Vicious Circle—Or Can It Fix Itself? Ideally, planners could balance homeowners interests in zoning against the public good, liberalizing zoning when prices got too high. But this may be politically impossible. Share As I and many others have argued (both in Planetizen and elsewhere) existing zoning increases housing costs and accelerates suburban sprawl by restricting the housing supply available in close-in, walkable neighborhoods. It could be argued, however, that pl...

History (Un)made: Berkeley City Council Votes to Eliminate Single-Family Zoning The city that invented single-family zoning in 1916, for discriminatory purposes, will completely remove that exclusionary legacy from its zoning code. February 24, 2021, 10am PST | James Brasuell | The Berkeley City Council, the very first city in the United States to implement single-family zoning, now commonly referred to as exclusionary zoning, has voted to completely upend that legacy. By a unanimous vote ...

Boston to Require Fair Housing Review for New Developments The Boston Zoning Code is one of the first in the nation to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. February 23, 2021, 6am PST | James Brasuell | Back in December, Boston took steps to become the first large city in the nation to include Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) requirements in its zoning code. The news broke about the citys historic action after a vote by the City Council and an announcement of support by Mayor ...

Coming into a really big population area that is going to be completely cut off. its a serious thing. sorry to be mean to your beachology. pete: you know construction well. you see those images as well. how confident are you that zoning codes have created environment where buildings can we stand that. rick: buildings have gotten better. because of hurricane andrew they changed. this a lot of buildings are built to withstand cat 3 storms. this is going to be a stronger storm than that a lot of bu...

>> the reality with disasters like this is you save the lives before the disaster with the policy, the building codes, the zoning codes, and then the early warning. if you get some of those wrong, people will die, and theres not much you can do about it in the event. >> where people get angered, its like ray nagen down in new orleans. ill get 90% of the people out. 90 isnt winning. 50,000 people were left behind. im always struck by that picture of all those school buses. hundreds of school buse...

>> one final subject, you referenced housing. the zoning laws of the country are not prepared for this trend. explain. >> exactly. so in the 1950s that very extraordinary time, we passed a lot of laws to try and build a lot of housing very quickly. for the young people who were coming home from the war. the problem is, that we built everything around this idea of one massive cohort of young people coming in, getting married and settling down. and so what we did is lose the ability to build more ...

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